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>Good. This should come with the caveat that they are going after ultra-high net worth individuals. If people work hard and make alot of money you want them ta

>Good. This should come with the caveat that they are going after ultra-high net worth individuals. If people work hard and make alot of money you want them targeted? Wow! If only I could waste billions of our taxes without accountability. Those ultra rich hire people, and have lot's of write off's and know the system. Tax code is difficult on purpose. There is a history of IRS targeting certain groups, while ignoring the others. If you think they wont target people that are helpless and can't fight you've got to wake up. Not too long ago: "Internal Revenue Service says it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the names "Tea Party" or "Patriot" seeking tax-exempt status. No criminal charges were ever filed against IRS officials.

Spooky23 4y ago
No charges were filed because they didn’t commit a crime. Targeting some dopes creating a 501 as a “Tea Party” group is called targeting the low hanging fruit. So is aggressively enforcement of credits for non-custodial parents, etc. Meanwhile, those hard working ultra-rich real estate developers committing various frauds with self-dealing, fake appraisals, etc walk away with millions of dollars and pay little or nothing.
yamtaddle 4y ago
> If people work hard and make alot of money you want them targeted? Wow! If only I could waste billions of our taxes without accountability. No, just the "make a lot of money" part. How hard they worked doesn't matter.
ceejayoz 4y ago
> Not too long ago: "Internal Revenue Service says it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the names "Tea Party" or "Patriot" seeking tax-exempt status. When they investigated, "progressive" and "occupy" (as in Occupy Wall Street) were also on the scrutiny list. They were (correctly) looking for political orgs masquerading as "social welfare" orgs to avoid disclosing donors. (Also on the list of terms: "open source software", "medical marijuana", etc.) https://web.archive.org/web/20131207123209/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-24/irs-screened-applications-using-progressive-israel-.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131207123209/https://www.bloom...
NickC25 4y ago
>If people work hard and make alot of money you want them targeted? Wow! If only I could waste billions of our taxes without accountability. Uh, yes, that's the whole point. If you win at capitalism, you have to pay the cost to keep the whole thing going. >Those ultra rich hire people, and have lot's of write off's and know the system. Tax code is difficult on purpose. They also hire people to hide money for them. See: the Swiss banking system, Cayman Islands LLC structure, etc... >If you think they wont target people that are helpless and can't fight you've got to wake up That's what they DO do. They go after the low-hanging fruit significantly more because the poor person knows they'll get fucked if they don't do what the IRS says. The rich person will hire lawyers. >Not too long ago: "Internal Revenue Service says it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the names "Tea Party" or "Patriot" seeking tax-exempt status. The Tea Party was founded by a bunch of billionaires that didn't want to pay any taxes at all. Seeing them form an organization to "donate" money to (with the express intent on using said money to "lobby" the government to reduce taxes even further) and ask for it to be tax-exempt is the peak example of everything that is wrong with unchecked capitalism. No shit the IRS looked at them a bit closer.

Spooky23 4y ago

No charges were filed because they didn’t commit a crime. Targeting some dopes creating a 501 as a “Tea Party” group is called targeting the low hanging fruit. So is aggressively enforcement of credits for non-custodial parents, etc. Meanwhile, those hard working ultra-rich real estate developers committing various frauds with self-dealing, fake appraisals, etc walk away with millions of dollars and pay little or nothing.

yamtaddle 4y ago

> If people work hard and make alot of money you want them targeted? Wow! If only I could waste billions of our taxes without accountability. No, just the "make a lot of money" part. How hard they worked doesn't matter.

ceejayoz 4y ago

> Not too long ago: "Internal Revenue Service says it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the names "Tea Party" or "Patriot" seeking tax-exempt status. When they investigated, "progressive" and "occupy" (as in Occupy Wall Street) were also on the scrutiny list. They were (correctly) looking for political orgs masquerading as "social welfare" orgs to avoid disclosing donors. (Also on the list of terms: "open source software", "medical marijuana", etc.) https://web.archive.org/web/20131207123209/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-24/irs-screened-applications-using-progressive-israel-.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131207123209/https://www.bloom...

NickC25 4y ago

>If people work hard and make alot of money you want them targeted? Wow! If only I could waste billions of our taxes without accountability. Uh, yes, that's the whole point. If you win at capitalism, you have to pay the cost to keep the whole thing going. >Those ultra rich hire people, and have lot's of write off's and know the system. Tax code is difficult on purpose. They also hire people to hide money for them. See: the Swiss banking system, Cayman Islands LLC structure, etc... >If you think they wont target people that are helpless and can't fight you've got to wake up That's what they DO do. They go after the low-hanging fruit significantly more because the poor person knows they'll get fucked if they don't do what the IRS says. The rich person will hire lawyers. >Not too long ago: "Internal Revenue Service says it gave extra scrutiny to organizations with the names "Tea Party" or "Patriot" seeking tax-exempt status. The Tea Party was founded by a bunch of billionaires that didn't want to pay any taxes at all. Seeing them form an organization to "donate" money to (with the express intent on using said money to "lobby" the government to reduce taxes even further) and ask for it to be tax-exempt is the peak example of everything that is wrong with unchecked capitalism. No shit the IRS looked at them a bit closer.